I loaded BCA in the Slainte in churchwarden configuration this morning.
Pipe Of The Day (POTD)
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My POTD photos tend to get a bit repetitive in March. I'm just trying to introduce a little variety.Price,
I have finally seen the morphing of a meerschaum pipe from your posts. It’s gone from showing the pipe to showing the case of the pipe and then onto no pipe at all.
Larry
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Sticking with the latest Falcon, and continuing to break in the bantam billiard bowl, with the Gentleman's Choice house blend from MySmokingShop.
GL Pease, Quiet Nights. It’s early while I’m awaiting a ship.
Yesterday afternoon, home a little early, I took up the no-name Lumberman, pre-loaded with Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic, and had nearly a half-hour's smoke. It was odd. Once again I'm trying the loading technique taught to me by Mr. Jansen of his pipe shop in the French Quarter many years ago: Take a big pinch of your tobacco and gently screw it into the bowl. Push it down a little, but not very far. Apparently that provides a bit of an air pocket at the bottom of the bowl. And it does burn well for about fifteen minutes, but then . . . the bowl isn't full, so the burnable leaf is gone. Uh, drawback? Maybe I should edge it down a fraction more and add some kindling on top.
I wiped the bowl, packed in a little more SWRA, and got another ten minutes' time.
I wiped the bowl, packed in a little more SWRA, and got another ten minutes' time.
Post-workout and -breakfast pipe before I dash out for errands: Peterson My Mixture 965 in the venerable Peterson 307 from the Eighties. I loaded it as Charles Peterson recommended to load a System pipe, with the initial third of the bowl pressed down a little so it slants up toward the airway. So far so good!
Evening coffee + Plum Pudding in my rusticated Grabow Omega
Pre-breakfast pipe on probably one of the last cool mornings we can expect here: Peterson Sherlock Holmes in the small Linkman's Dr. Grabow bent apple. I got nearly fifteen minutes' smoke, about right for me with that blend. With coffee, a nice wakeup session!
AimlessWanderer
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No.8 Cherry Vanilla mixed shag in the same Falcon (black/chrome shillelagh with bantam billiard) that I've been breaking in recently. I'm really enjoying that small bowl, but I ought to give it a few days rest after this smoke.
This morning, it's Project Digby and BCA. With my best mate, radiant propane heater, at my side this fine January morning.
Benzadmiral, I have been averaging about 40 minutes a bowl with black Cavendish and close to that with other blends by packing the bowl evenly from bottom to top with light to medium pressure from a small headed tamp.
I set the bowl in the snack bag of tobacco and simply feed the tobacco in with the tamp. Repeat about ten times with light/medium pressure until the bowl is almost full. I call it a shoveller technique.
Depending on the tobacco I can get away with one or two relights after I get it started.
Benzadmiral, I have been averaging about 40 minutes a bowl with black Cavendish and close to that with other blends by packing the bowl evenly from bottom to top with light to medium pressure from a small headed tamp.
I set the bowl in the snack bag of tobacco and simply feed the tobacco in with the tamp. Repeat about ten times with light/medium pressure until the bowl is almost full. I call it a shoveller technique.
Depending on the tobacco I can get away with one or two relights after I get it started.
I've tried that, the three-step filling process, the two-step, and maybe some others. Sometimes one works best, sometimes another.
It might also be that I'm a faster puffer than you are. I'm trying to work on that -- but I like seeing the occasional big puff of smoke.
Needed a quick break for some enjoyment so short stop cob with some half and half it is!
Larry
Larry
Had a video chat this afternoon with a good friend who moved away last year. Smoked some of my local B&M pipe club mixture in a no name briar. Very good blend all the way to the end. Even better conversation just catching up!
My first Stonehaven Sunday in a few weeks...
AimlessWanderer
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Peterson Barrel with the last of this small jar of Kendal Cream
The SilverKing got loaded with Brigadier Black Alamo this morning. It's a little reluctant to stay lit, but so was the lighter until I warmed it up...
Union Square in Rossi 8320
AimlessWanderer
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Maiden voyage of the fancy Falcon.
Smoking Gawith Hoggarth New Prince
Smoking Gawith Hoggarth New Prince
First pipe in a day or so: A mix of Rattray's Stirling Flake and Capstan Blue in the Georg Jensen sandblast straight billiard, the "captain's pipe." After watching some videos on it, I've tried the Frank method of loading. Not sure I did it quite right; the leaf, though it lit well and smoked steadily, has gone out after about fifteen minutes. Clearly more practice is called for!
Savinelli Saint Nicholas 320KS
